Empty Things

It's one of those cruel realities of living in a house with multiple people.Maybe you too have been a victim. You go to pour a bowl of your favorite breakfast cereal (the kind you always wanted to get when you were a kid, but it wasn't healthy enough) and nothing but a few crumbs and that dust that seems to settle at the bottom of every cereal box. Or better yet, you go to grab the coffee pot - groggy and tired - and just a few drips fall into your cup as a reminder that you should have woken up earlier if you wanted some coffee.We never find what we are looking for in empty things.

And do not turn aside; for then you would go after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.1 Samuel 12:21 NKJV

Samuel reminds the people that what God has to offer is far different than the empty things that they are often guilty of running after in life. These things cannot profit. They cannot deliver.There is a tendency in life to turn aside to thing that are empty.What Jesus offers us is something completely different. He offers us life to the full (John 10:10).He offers a new life (2 Corinthians 5:17).He offers salvation from an empty, dead existence (Ephesians 2:5) and the need to chase empty things.He offers us freedom from areas of the past that gripped our identity, and offers us a new identity in Him (Ephesians 5:8, 1 Corinthians 6:11) 

Avoid the empty things, since God has promised life to the full.